Didn't happen did it.
Then there was:
But Tuesday came and no surprise.
No surprise.
I was going to read this book … I really was. But just as I got started, I found myself under sniper fire, passed out, and fell and hit my head. After that I got double vision and had to wear glasses that were so damn thick I couldn’t even see to read. As if that wasn’t enough, I then had an allergic reaction to something and started coughing so hard I spit out what looked like a couple of lizard’s eyeballs, my limbs locked up, and I passed out and fell down again, waking up only to find out I had been diagnosed with pneumonia 2 days earlier. Somehow I managed to power through it all, but it’s a good thing I was able to make a small fortune on this random small trade in the commodities market (cattle futures or some such thing) and then, miracle of all miracles, a few banks offered me a few million to just talk to their employees for a few minutes – and all that really helped out because I swear I was dead broke and couldn’t figure out how I was gonna come up with the 6 bucks to pay for this book, let alone pay the $1,500 for my health insurance this month. I still want to read it, but, honestly, what difference at this point does it make? I hear it sucks anyway.
The parliaments and people mean very little now in Europe – as little as in Russia. The British people voted for Brexit. Fine! So did it happen? Not at all. The new unelected government of Theresa May just pushed the decision far away into the heap of not-very-urgent business correspondence next to requesting assignment of a budget to a Zoo. Maybe she will deliver it to Brussels in a year or two. Or people will forget about that vote.To understand the title of this piece, you have to know that in Britain, the second vowel in the name Teresa is pronounced as the 'ea' in treason.
Israel Shamir: Democracy's Last Chance
Gin Lane, London by William Hogarth. |
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it "I refute it thus."
James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791)
There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.
Aristotle: Meteorology, Book IIFirst Posted October 15, 2012: It has been suggested that this is an example of Aristotle giving experimental proof of desalination by osmosis. In fact, it is an example of why science in ancient Greece never took off. Moreover, if the procedure Aristotle described had worked, it would have been an example not of osmosis but of reverse osmosis, whereby water from a salty solution is forced through a semipermeable membrane that prevents the passage of salts. But as described, the procedure would not have worked because the walls of a vessel of wax will not serve as a semipermeable membrane. Moreover, unless the vessel was immersed at depth, something Aristotle does not mention, there would have been no pressure gradient to drive the process.
In fact, psychosis may affect 1 in 5 Parkinson’s patients... And as many as 2 out of 3 patients may experience minor symptoms, “such as non-bothersome illusions. (An example is “seeing something in the corner of your eye that may not be there, [such as] a bug in the sink for an instant.”)
Patients primarily experience visual hallucinations ... A smaller number of patients – 10 to 20 percent – experience auditory hallucinations, he said.
The new face of Britain. In Luton, a jobless couple with eight
children demands public housing with at least six double bedrooms.
They evidently plan on having a couple more kids.
It's what's known as indigenous population replacement immigration, aka the genocide of the English. Meantime the folks slated for extinction are evidently paying to clothe, feed and educate those who are about to replace them. (Source). |